California · Nonprofit
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $255k
What Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc does
Mission
Berkeley Ballet Theater offers the highest quality dance training from beginning to professional levels, supports a preprofessional youth company, introduces ballet to young audiences through an outreach program, is committed to access, diversity and equity in students and faculty, offers special classes to boys and provides economic assistance to promising dancers in need of financial assistance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Dance for PD is a movement program developed through a collaboration between the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, based on the idea that professional dancers can help people with Parkinsons disease improve movement, balance, rhythm, and coordination. Classes are designed for individuals with Parkinsons at any stage, require no dance experience, and combine various dance styles with live music in a supportive, social, and enjoyable environment. The program offers free, weekly in-studio classes for dancers with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In March 2025, BBT disbanded the professional company, Post:ballet. The company performed one final program at the end of January 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Youth Division: BBT's Youth Division provides dancers with the opportunity to study classical ballet in a disciplined, professional atmosphere that is also supportive of each student's unique talents, passions, and creative voice. Our commitment to offering a rigorous syllabus in an inclusive space, equips students with exceptional training that can launch them into a professional dance career or a lifelong, meaningful connection to ballet. The nurturing, encouraging, and body positive environment at BBT also gives students the confidence and persistence to make an impact in whatever life path they choose. Each dancer in BBTs Youth Division matriculates through the curriculum at a different pace. Unlike academic learning, dancers often progress through their training in a non-linear fashion, experiencing bursts of growth that can be followed by seemingly long periods of plateau in which a deepening of core values is built up to support the dancers next leap forward.
$567,177 spent45% of program spendingAdult Open Division: BBTs Adult Open Division offers weekly classes at all levels led by a member of BBTs celebrated Faculty and featuring live accompaniment at Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. Classes are designed for dancers to begin at any time Please see the Level descriptions below to select an appropriate class. BBTs Open Division combines the highest level of ballet training with a positive atmosphere that cultivates community and celebrates individuality.
$315,098 spent25% of program spendingPost:ballet: Berkeley Ballet Theater is the official school of Post:ballet, the acclaimed contemporary dance company founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Robin Dekkers, named 25 to Watch by DANCE Magazine. Berkeley Ballet Theaters dancers and community are connected to the creative process of a professional company that has gained local and national recognition for making work that is inventive, focused, sophisticated, and anything but risk averse SF Chronicle. Offering professional-level performance opportunities and inspiring workshop experiences to BBT dancers, this partnership amplifies both organizations shared values of artistic excellence, inclusivity, passion, and imagination. Whether a dancer is interested in pursuing pre-professional training in the Youth Division or experiencing the joy of movement in the Adult Division, this partnership with Post:ballet enriches each dancers experience at BBT and cultivates a collaborative relationship between members of both organizations communities. In March 2025, BBT disbanded the professional company, Post:ballet. The company performed one final program at the end of January 2025.
$189,059 spent15% of program spendingPre-Ballet Division: Berkeley Ballet Theater is honored to guide young dancers through their introduction to ballet. BBT's Pre-Ballet Division faculty have expertise in both the art of dance and early childhood development. Our goal is to support our dancers both as artists and people and we are here to facilitate the process of finding the class that best serves dancers and their families. Dancers in BBT's Pre-Ballet Division are introduced to fundamental elements of dance training, including physical movement, creative play, exploration of rhythm and shape, and spatial awareness. Our young dancers learn important community building skills, including taking turns, patience, listening, focus, self-respect, and respect for others. All of these skills are meant to prepare our young dancers to thrive and grow in their love of dance as they move on to the increasingly rigorous training provided in the Youth Division.
$126,039 spent10% of program spendingDance for PD is a movement program developed through a collaboration between the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, based on the idea that professional dancers can help people with Parkinsons disease improve movement, balance, rhythm, and coordination. Classes are designed for individuals with Parkinsons at any stage, require no dance experience, and combine various dance styles with live music in a supportive, social, and enjoyable environment. The program offers free, weekly in-studio classes for dancers with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers.
$63,020 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,260,393.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $341k to $885k (+160%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 31% · 2023 16% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $57k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc?
- Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($82,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $329,926 in grants to Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing